Alienation Quotes

133 quotes by 122 authors

Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects around… — Loren Eiseley
If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained… — Cormac McCarthy
That anyone should need to write a book advising people to "eat food" could be taken as a measure of our alienation and confusion. Or… — Michael Pollan
The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain levelï»¿ of alienation — Terence McKenna
Dantes passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of conscious innocence which… — Alexandre Dumas
Tonight sucks. And look at me. Look at - look at stupid Buffy. Too dumb for college, and-and-and freak Buffy, too strong for construction work.… — Joss Whedon
You and I share the same DNA. Is there anything more lonely than that? — Charlie Kaufman
And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experience a special… — Erving Goffman
To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness,… — Eric Hoffer
Not for a minute did I believe that this wasnâ€™t goodbye. Still, I had loved and been loved in return, and there was nothing greater… — Jeaniene Frost
The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of oneâ€™s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly… — R. D. Laing
Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and… — Henri Nouwen
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a… — Alan Watts
And yet I understood the alienation of being around others who couldn't really see you or chose not to. I'd felt the self-loathing that came… — Sylvia Day
The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that… — Marya Mannes
When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to… — Bell Hooks
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an… — Jean Baudrillard
When I go back to America, after a few days I am once again filled with this kind of angry alienation and disgust with this… — Robert Crumb
People talk about alienation in the city. Diners are a place where you feel comfortable, an extension of your house. — Richard Greenberg
While the West tries to turn its civilization into cultural variety hour, Islam tries to turn Muslim lands into a cultural monolith. The same West… — Ben Shapiro

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